Your absolutely correct, it's a worm. And being that it was written for windows, I'd have to say that it has everything to do with windows.
Now, given, this could be done for any other os. But in general it's only done for windows. A valid analogy would be if a man eating Tiger alert was issued for Pretoria, South Africa. Sure, tigers could live in America if released here and if so, there could be tiger alerts here as well. There's nothing intrinsically unsuitable about the environment that precludes such an occurance. But Pretoria, South Africa Tiger alerts have absolutely no consequence for me.
For that matter, what's a 'v-i-r-u-s'? I have never seen this thing that you speak of.
........Oh, my bad, it's another one of those windows features./moving along now
Two ways to get an ivy league education.
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It's because execs are realizing that there are two ways to get an ivy league education:
Earn one.
Buy one.
In other words, a C student at Harvard whose family comes from money may very possibly be a complete idiot in comparison to an A student from the local Uni. . .
You sound like a fairly knowledgeable user overall. Have you ever considered setting up a home mail server on an old box? I have a postfix+blah+blah+dspam solution the set-up of which shouldn't be too hard at all for someone willing to do so much research into all the ins and outs Windows security.
The end result is that I have not gotten a single spam mail into my Inbox since, no wrongly tagged emails since my initial training either. And I have my "forum, mailing list, *public* email" which receives easily 100 spam a day or more....not really sure since I never see them.:)
It seems your saying "My parents are border line retarded, there's no way they can learn a different browseer let along an entire OS!".
Please, they're obviously professionals of some sort or they wouldn't be using computers at all, they'd be flipping burgers.
I make spare change tutoring little old ladies how to use a computer. I'm talking about the type of user that is proud they know which part of the computer is the mouse. If I can get these users up to speed in a matter of a few hours, than I'm sure your parents could swing it.
Now if you approached it from the angle of: The CAD program my father uses is not available on Mac....that'd be a valid reason. The "my parents are retarded" approach is weak.
Actually the steel debacle had to do with cutting out the Australian steel industry, iirc. Australia is hardly known for it's excessive abuse of workers, child labor, and such. The WTO came in because it was essentially an attempt to create an unfair market by effectively preventing non U.S. steel industries from competing.
However, what I am referring to is an effective sanction or ban on industries which are grossly violating human rights (including the right to a clean, healthy environment). Furthermore, I'd much rather see the U.S. saying "We don't care what the WTO says. If you use child labor your products will never make it to a U.S. market." Rather than the all to typical, "We will polute as much as we want."
There is a direct causal relationship between forcing industry to not pollute and job loss
That the U.S. should not create it own importation tarriffs on those who excessively dump to negate financial benefits of doing so.
The first assumption is completely groundless. There are a miriad of factors involved in a countries economy. Some possible biasing factors which would directly affect your assumption include, but are not limited to:
Rise in medical care costs due to pollution which could result in less discretionary income and possibly a less robust economy
Lost work days due to poor work environment resulting in higher production costs
Destruction of resources which could serve as an aditional means of economic growth (tourist industry)
Lack of incentive for alternate, more efficient production methods
For the second point, the laissez faire and free but not fair market model that we are currently supporting is a significant contributor to job loss and Industry exodus. Though the U.S. is a major producer, what many people forget is that above all the U.S. is a major consumer. If importers were penalized for not adhering to fair labor practices (no slave or child labor, adhering to pollution standards equal to that of the U.S., etc, etc) in such a manner as to put local industry in the same playing field there would be no incentive to migrate except ones more adherent to the principles of true capitilism: equal competition.
Notice that I have not made any bold causal assumptions of my own. Merely pointed out that your assessment is simplistic, ill-informed, poorly supported, and more opinion than any sort of solid assessment to base a decision on.
The amazing thing about statistics is that there are all sorts of rules that take account of thest things in the formulation of what is called "significance levels". In your tiny sample example, the error would be exceptionally high leading to a distinct possibility that any result gathered from it would not extensible to any large population.
In other words, statistics agrees with your point and factors that into it's summation of significance. . .
for reference and a better working understanding of statistics refer to Stats
In general though, the key terms you wish to research would be: validity and reliability.
You are exactly correct, that is why a well designed experiment eliminates/accounts for possible bias such as these. In your example, that population wasn't taken into account would be a valid criticism. Especially if coupled with data demonstrating that population played a significant role.
Pointing out a common bias error does not delegate all results into insignificance. After reading over their study, it seems pretty robust. However, if you have noticed a specific bias they have overlooked please point it out (to them as well as/.) so they, or you can adjust significance levels accordingly.
Also of note, if you read the abstract they do not say ". ..thereforre, the Bush administration is a bunch of fraudelant bastards." They said, ". ..shows that to a 99.99% certainty said skewing did not occur due to chance." (paraphrasing) This does not make a claim as to what the cause is exactly, but only that it was not a random occurrance.
It would appear that these retailer's definition is "someone who doesn't return x number of products regardless of the circumstances surrounding that return."
I have been in situations where I had to return a product to a company 3 times before getting a working item. Now given, I never shopped with them again, but it would have been infuriating to be told on the third attempt: "I'm sorry, but you have exceded your maximum alloted returns for this year."
Now, it is odd that their image gallery isn't equally pertinant, but I think it's more of a reflection on google having a poor image search engine or prehaps poorly maintained index....not some grand censorship conspiracy theory.
The Hisenburg (sp?) uncertainty priciple dictates this!
A good rule of thumb is: if you can't spell it and don't care enough to look it up you shouldn't realy be using it to bolster your view.
I don't think any scientist has ever purported that we will know everything about our Universe. However, most will tell you that a gap in knowledge is no excuse to start filling the holes with fairy tales.
For future reference, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle was an observation of the probabalistic nature of quantum physics. Specifically, it held that our knowledge of the position and the velocity of a quanta for any given time is inversely proportional to each other.
Hardly pertinant to the point you were trying to make.
I know this is a bit off topic, but:
What motherboard? What is your onboard sound chip?
The vast majority of onboard sound run off of the intel8x0 sound driver which I know is auto-detected by at least half of those you mentioned. . ..though some require a little fiddling in the your DE's hardware console.
Is DFS really necessary on *nix systems? iirc, DFS was presented as a solution to having numerous shared drives. No more worries of running out of drive letters or having 20 different drives scattered around "My Computer".
With *nix systems you can mount numerous drives in one directory under logically organized sub-directories essentially acheiving the same thing.
I have a friend who owned a mutual funds company. Made a hell of a lot of money. He hadn't paid taxes in 10 years. Not illegally, but completely legit. Such is the bias in law.
He also supported a flat tax, no exceptions. Of course, that meant he would lose a lot of money. His response: "Of course I'm going to take advantage of it, I'd be an idiot not too. But that doesn't mean I don't think there isn't a better system out there."
The true idiot is one who can't see past his immediate gain to recognize a better overall system.
Sorry, sir, but good web designers ensure all their work is standard compliant.
I'd also venture that the benefit (financial or otherwise) of a standard to a company is inversely related to the size of that company. Standards open up competition allowing others to offer competing services. For a large company/monoply this is far from a good thing. This is why standards must forcefully be shoved down the throats of big players to foster a truly free market.
Doing something "just because it's there" is exactly what has historically lead to the most profits:
The Americas
The moon (no profits you say? notice the tight correlation between our leap in technology and the lunar program?)
Every single instance of pure science that exists.
Now the adventures and scientists always had a hook they sold to their Queen or benefactors.
"A path to Asia"
"Enhanced Missile design"
"Ermm, *cough* *cough* commercialization of space"
The fact is, there is no predicting what fruits pure science will yeild, antibiotics, electricity, a new propulsion system, or different way of computing. The only guarantee is that if you throw enough money at them they will and it will pay off.
The minute a nation forgets this fact and neglects the pure sciences in lieu of the sure thing, is the minute they begin to decline.
Hehe, yes I've paid for it. . . plus some. I bought a new dual g5 and sold my x86 laptop to buy an iBook. . ..so I guess you could say I bought it twice over I liked it so much.:)
I find nothing morally wrong with downloading a torrent if your intentions are to "try before you buy". I do this with every game before I buy. I give it a week, if I like it I buy it.....every time.
So try osx, just make sure you give it fair shake, the first time I tried it I didn't particularly care for it. But after giving it a thorough try out (e.g. not just fiddling in spare time, but used as my main os for a month) I never put it down.
Get rid of the RIAA so that artists must make it on their own musical talent rather than by huge advertising campaigns designed to convince 11 year olds that their not cool unless they buy your albums and T-Shirts.
Become a good artist.
Get your name known by virtue of your talent and raw musical appeal.
Sell your albums for a small fraction of what the RIAA charges. (like $4 a cd, or DRM'less lossless online for $.20. ..both will make you more per song/album than the RIAA will pay AND it makes you competitive with p2p especially when convenience and guaranteed quality are taken into account)
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Now, given, this could be done for any other os. But in general it's only done for windows. A valid analogy would be if a man eating Tiger alert was issued for Pretoria, South Africa. Sure, tigers could live in America if released here and if so, there could be tiger alerts here as well. There's nothing intrinsically unsuitable about the environment that precludes such an occurance. But Pretoria, South Africa Tiger alerts have absolutely no consequence for me.
........Oh, my bad, it's another one of those windows features. /moving along now
- Earn one.
- Buy one.
In other words, a C student at Harvard whose family comes from money may very possibly be a complete idiot in comparison to an A student from the local Uni. . .The end result is that I have not gotten a single spam mail into my Inbox since, no wrongly tagged emails since my initial training either. And I have my "forum, mailing list, *public* email" which receives easily 100 spam a day or more....not really sure since I never see them. :)
Please, they're obviously professionals of some sort or they wouldn't be using computers at all, they'd be flipping burgers.
I make spare change tutoring little old ladies how to use a computer. I'm talking about the type of user that is proud they know which part of the computer is the mouse. If I can get these users up to speed in a matter of a few hours, than I'm sure your parents could swing it.
Now if you approached it from the angle of: The CAD program my father uses is not available on Mac....that'd be a valid reason. The "my parents are retarded" approach is weak.
Any time a geek catches a woman it's exceptional.
Actually the steel debacle had to do with cutting out the Australian steel industry, iirc. Australia is hardly known for it's excessive abuse of workers, child labor, and such. The WTO came in because it was essentially an attempt to create an unfair market by effectively preventing non U.S. steel industries from competing. However, what I am referring to is an effective sanction or ban on industries which are grossly violating human rights (including the right to a clean, healthy environment). Furthermore, I'd much rather see the U.S. saying "We don't care what the WTO says. If you use child labor your products will never make it to a U.S. market." Rather than the all to typical, "We will polute as much as we want."
- There is a direct causal relationship between forcing industry to not pollute and job loss
- That the U.S. should not create it own importation tarriffs on those who excessively dump to negate financial benefits of doing so.
The first assumption is completely groundless. There are a miriad of factors involved in a countries economy. Some possible biasing factors which would directly affect your assumption include, but are not limited to:- Rise in medical care costs due to pollution which could result in less discretionary income and possibly a less robust economy
- Lost work days due to poor work environment resulting in higher production costs
- Destruction of resources which could serve as an aditional means of economic growth (tourist industry)
- Lack of incentive for alternate, more efficient production methods
For the second point, the laissez faire and free but not fair market model that we are currently supporting is a significant contributor to job loss and Industry exodus. Though the U.S. is a major producer, what many people forget is that above all the U.S. is a major consumer. If importers were penalized for not adhering to fair labor practices (no slave or child labor, adhering to pollution standards equal to that of the U.S., etc, etc) in such a manner as to put local industry in the same playing field there would be no incentive to migrate except ones more adherent to the principles of true capitilism: equal competition.Notice that I have not made any bold causal assumptions of my own. Merely pointed out that your assessment is simplistic, ill-informed, poorly supported, and more opinion than any sort of solid assessment to base a decision on.
In other words, statistics agrees with your point and factors that into it's summation of significance. . .
for reference and a better working understanding of statistics refer to Stats In general though, the key terms you wish to research would be: validity and reliability.
Pointing out a common bias error does not delegate all results into insignificance. After reading over their study, it seems pretty robust. However, if you have noticed a specific bias they have overlooked please point it out (to them as well as /.) so they, or you can adjust significance levels accordingly.
Also of note, if you read the abstract they do not say ". . .thereforre, the Bush administration is a bunch of fraudelant bastards." They said, ". . .shows that to a 99.99% certainty said skewing did not occur due to chance." (paraphrasing) This does not make a claim as to what the cause is exactly , but only that it was not a random occurrance .
I've always found folks who thought pointing out a typo was a solid rebute to be particularly lacking of understanding.
It would appear that these retailer's definition is "someone who doesn't return x number of products regardless of the circumstances surrounding that return."
I have been in situations where I had to return a product to a company 3 times before getting a working item. Now given, I never shopped with them again, but it would have been infuriating to be told on the third attempt: "I'm sorry, but you have exceded your maximum alloted returns for this year."
Abu Ghraib Photo's
Now, it is odd that their image gallery isn't equally pertinant, but I think it's more of a reflection on google having a poor image search engine or prehaps poorly maintained index....not some grand censorship conspiracy theory.
G5 1.5ghz
A 1.5 ghz P4 is much slower than a 1.5ghz G5. G5 proc preformance per mhz is more on the same scale as the AMD chips.
A good rule of thumb is: if you can't spell it and don't care enough to look it up you shouldn't realy be using it to bolster your view.
I don't think any scientist has ever purported that we will know everything about our Universe. However, most will tell you that a gap in knowledge is no excuse to start filling the holes with fairy tales.
For future reference, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle was an observation of the probabalistic nature of quantum physics. Specifically, it held that our knowledge of the position and the velocity of a quanta for any given time is inversely proportional to each other.
Hardly pertinant to the point you were trying to make.
What motherboard? What is your onboard sound chip?
The vast majority of onboard sound run off of the intel8x0 sound driver which I know is auto-detected by at least half of those you mentioned. . . .though some require a little fiddling in the your DE's hardware console.
With *nix systems you can mount numerous drives in one directory under logically organized sub-directories essentially acheiving the same thing.
He also supported a flat tax, no exceptions. Of course, that meant he would lose a lot of money. His response: "Of course I'm going to take advantage of it, I'd be an idiot not too. But that doesn't mean I don't think there isn't a better system out there." The true idiot is one who can't see past his immediate gain to recognize a better overall system.
I'd also venture that the benefit (financial or otherwise) of a standard to a company is inversely related to the size of that company. Standards open up competition allowing others to offer competing services. For a large company/monoply this is far from a good thing. This is why standards must forcefully be shoved down the throats of big players to foster a truly free market.
Your absolutely correct, that's why you'll eventually lose your job as well. They'll replace you with a manager in India.
Now the adventures and scientists always had a hook they sold to their Queen or benefactors.
- "A path to Asia"
- "Enhanced Missile design"
- "Ermm, *cough* *cough* commercialization of space"
The fact is, there is no predicting what fruits pure science will yeild, antibiotics, electricity, a new propulsion system, or different way of computing. The only guarantee is that if you throw enough money at them they will and it will pay off.The minute a nation forgets this fact and neglects the pure sciences in lieu of the sure thing, is the minute they begin to decline.
Hehe, yes I've paid for it. . . plus some. I bought a new dual g5 and sold my x86 laptop to buy an iBook. . . .so I guess you could say I bought it twice over I liked it so much. :)
So try osx, just make sure you give it fair shake, the first time I tried it I didn't particularly care for it. But after giving it a thorough try out (e.g. not just fiddling in spare time, but used as my main os for a month) I never put it down.
cheers,
-james